Results Wed 26 Sept 07
If you are on the Net (and if you're reading this you probably will be) you might like to look up Bridgeclub Live. It's an online Bridge Club run by the EBU with thousands of members from all over the world. It costs £64 for a year's membership but you can join as a guest free of charge for a month. This means you can play as much as you like, but only in the 'Social Bridge' room.
There are about ten 'rooms', each holding different sorts of event. You can play a whole series of duplicated hands in pairs, and in the evenings 'tourneys' or 16-board matches are available. There is even a room for beginners where you can get free online tuition by experts as you play.
You can always find a partner, simply by entering a room, looking for a vacant seat and sitting down. There are also messages at the bottom of the screen from tables short of one or more players. You can play as many hands as you wish - if your doorbell rings at home you just make your apologies and leave.
When you join, as member or guest, you have to invent a pseudonym for yourself. This means that nobody will know your true identity. My regular partner Gary was already a member when I joined, playing under the name 'Quixote', so I adopted the name 'Rosinante', the name of Don Quixote's horse on the grounds that I might have to carry him from time to time. My logo is of a sorry-looking nag, a fit steed for the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
The day after you've played Online Bridge you are e-mailed your percentage score for the boards you've played. You begin life as a lowly 'club' and as your average score increases you progress to diamond, then heart, then spade. The higher-ranking you are, the greater your handicap. With much help from Quixote I started life as a diamond, then quickly progressed to a spade. However after series of poor sessions I've gone back to being a heart and must try harder.
You can find the site on http://www.bridgeclublive.com Give it a go.
Results are as follows:
1st, Norman & Pamela, 61.1%; 2nd, Tricia & Shirley, 56.9%; 3rd, Harry & Audrey, 54.1%; 4th, Fred & Mo, 52.7%; 5th, Peter & Yvonne, 47.2%; 6th, George & Luigi, 43.0%; 7th, Danny & Jean, 34.7%
Pairs 5 & 7 made the scoring task longer by filling in pair numbers incorrectly on two boards. I shall have to consider 'fining' offending pairs some matchpoints in future.
Congratulations to Yvonne on her first solo session as a duplicate bridge player, and emerging from it (as far as we can tell) with her reason intact.
There are about ten 'rooms', each holding different sorts of event. You can play a whole series of duplicated hands in pairs, and in the evenings 'tourneys' or 16-board matches are available. There is even a room for beginners where you can get free online tuition by experts as you play.
You can always find a partner, simply by entering a room, looking for a vacant seat and sitting down. There are also messages at the bottom of the screen from tables short of one or more players. You can play as many hands as you wish - if your doorbell rings at home you just make your apologies and leave.
When you join, as member or guest, you have to invent a pseudonym for yourself. This means that nobody will know your true identity. My regular partner Gary was already a member when I joined, playing under the name 'Quixote', so I adopted the name 'Rosinante', the name of Don Quixote's horse on the grounds that I might have to carry him from time to time. My logo is of a sorry-looking nag, a fit steed for the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
The day after you've played Online Bridge you are e-mailed your percentage score for the boards you've played. You begin life as a lowly 'club' and as your average score increases you progress to diamond, then heart, then spade. The higher-ranking you are, the greater your handicap. With much help from Quixote I started life as a diamond, then quickly progressed to a spade. However after series of poor sessions I've gone back to being a heart and must try harder.
You can find the site on http://www.bridgeclublive.com Give it a go.
Results are as follows:
1st, Norman & Pamela, 61.1%; 2nd, Tricia & Shirley, 56.9%; 3rd, Harry & Audrey, 54.1%; 4th, Fred & Mo, 52.7%; 5th, Peter & Yvonne, 47.2%; 6th, George & Luigi, 43.0%; 7th, Danny & Jean, 34.7%
Pairs 5 & 7 made the scoring task longer by filling in pair numbers incorrectly on two boards. I shall have to consider 'fining' offending pairs some matchpoints in future.
Congratulations to Yvonne on her first solo session as a duplicate bridge player, and emerging from it (as far as we can tell) with her reason intact.
posted by Peter Rowlett at 11:02 AM
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